Are You Garbage? Comedy Podcast - How to Be a Classy Comedian w/ Ryan Hamilton!

Episode Date: July 27, 2026

Are You Garbage podcast presents stand up comedian Ryan Hamilton! You know Ryan Hamilton from Stand Up Comedy, Conan, The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Last Comic Standing, The Late Late Show, We Might Be Drunk, Jim Norton Can't Save You, The Nateland Podcast, Paul's Best Podcast, Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out, Inside Amy Schumer and so much more! Thanks for watching AYG Comedy Podcast. Love youse guys. Come to a live show! Tell Us About Your Small Business Here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd3YRknM7u4NOMJLQ0OjCfW7Tf53zuVaBvaPUxoY7EwNcAeGw/viewform?usp=send_form NEW AYG MERCH: https://areyougarbage.com/ AYG 2026 Live Shows: https://areyougarbage.com/pages/live-shows Watch Route 66: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSkJS1gCDR4 Live Shows: https://areyougarbage.com/pages/live-shows PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/AreYouGarbage MERCH: https://areyougarbage.com/ Sponsored By: Square: Get up to $200 off Square hardware when you sign up at https://square.com/go/garbage! Promo Code: GARBAGE Wayfair: Ready to upgrade your home for way less? Head to https://www.wayfair.com right now to shop all things home and get your space ready for less. Comedians H. Foley and Kevin Ryan are self proclaimed GARBAGE. Each week a new stand up comedian gets put to the test. Steal shampoo from hotels? Own a George Foreman Grill? Ever worn JNCO Jeans? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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That's right. And gang, we couldn't be more excited to have our incredibly, and I mean incredibly special guests here with this today for the first time. He is a very funny, very successful, well-respected stand-up comedian. among his peers and you might have seen them in but not limited to you got conan the late show the tonight show the comedian life of beth inside amy schumer he's got a brand new netflix special out right now this just hit me do me a favor give it up for the very what i predict very classy very funny

very awesome mr ryan hamilton oh that's very sweet thank you very much very happy to have you oh i'm very happy to be here thank you we're big fans yes that's so nice of your comedy and also the operate as a gentleman. Yes. You are a very buttoned up gentleman. The kid can wear a suit. Yeah. You got Seinfeld wearing suits. Is that true? I got him wearing suits? Yeah, yeah. He wasn't

wearing suits before I was around. Walking around in them rags. Jerry. That was funny. I mean, we were, you, for the people that might not be familiar, you wear at least a jacket on stage. Most of the time, it depends on where I'm at, but if I'm doing a theater, A good look for me is kind of like jeans in a jacket.

But if I'm on the road with Seinfeld, I wear a suit. Full suit. Sometimes I opt to wear a full suit depending on where I'm at. What depends? What we're big on what depends? I mean, well, if I'm doing the Tonight Show, something like that, I'll wear a full suit. A very special occasion, you know, if I'm in a big theater or something like that, I might wear a full suit. But if I'm in like an arena or something, I often feel like I got to wear like a more casual situation.

Play it down. A little cash. A rake and leaves jacket, as Jerry calls it. What's your raking leaves jacket? You know, like a jacket. Like you, like a swayed kind of jacket maybe. These guys operate. They're operating a different fashion set.

I don't know. I'm always thinking about what's appropriate. But I do think you've changed the way you perform a little bit based on how you dress. And I think it's important. And I think it's very important that people look at you and go, oh, that guy looks sharp. but they're not distracted by it. Once you get distracted by it, I think that's a little, you know,

a little bit to your detriment as a stand-up comedian. Yeah. Unless, you know, everybody's different, but that's how I feel. Nobody's ever said that about us. Those guys are sharp. Can I ask you this? What are the suits?

What's the brand the suits? Oh, lately I've been into Zena. Zena. Zena, is a good fit for me. What's that? You know, Zena? This is our tapped-in cool. Oh, yeah?

Yeah, Jenya's very classy. Really? Yeah, I feel like it's an up-and-comer. It's been around for a minute, but I feel like they've been very hot recently. Oh, you're in rivers over there. They're very good. Like, nothing fits me off the rack, so. You said it, sister.

This is going to be fun. Yeah. Well, this stuff ain't cheap. No. Whoa. But you can't afford it. I know that much. Here, listen.

It's Hamilton. It's, it's. It's. You're the richest guy I know. In your career. See? In your career. 900 for a t-shirt.

You got to get you in some zingas. It's a little. Look, they're, they're pricey, but they fit me well. There you go. That's all that matters. And if you watch my last special, I got a lot of compliments. People go, that jacket looks nice. And it's because I spent the time to find the right drape and the right color and the right fabric.

Calgary. And the right, you know. How it falls on you. Yes. I know what drape means. And so that's what I went for. And it pays off, I think. If that's, you know, and it makes you feel a certain way.

I think one of the most stressful parts about doing television, anything, is figuring out how you look. Yeah. It makes me, it's like, once I get that down, I'm relaxed, I'm calm. It's an investment in your performance, I feel like. You do the show, you keep the, you keep the, you keep the, you keep. the suit on for the rest of the night or you change out of it? It depends, I guess. I like to get out of it as soon as I can, depending on the situation.

You sit in the pants or do you fold the pants? I'll sit in the pants, you know, for a while. Yeah, I'll sit in the pants. Listen, we were talking to two guys who are bad with suits, right? We've always been bigger guys. Bad with most things. And we look, you put a suit on us, it lasts about. Like a fat kid at a wedding.

I got about 40 minutes in a suit before I look like a melted candle. What do you mean? The suit, something happens. Oh, yeah, like, I'm just not. He's gross. Maybe you need it. Come on. I think the problem with a lot of people with suits, and I have this problem, too, it's very

difficult to just go buy a suit. You've got to find the, you got to get the right fit. And then a lot of those problems will go away. Now, who's your tailor? You got a specific guy you go to? You don't have to say his name is in a lot. Well, no, I have tried different people over time. I found someone in Chicago I really like at the Zena store.

She's great. And she helped me with the special. and so I stay in touch with her. What? Just guys are in touch with a tailor? That's crazy. That's good stuff. When you find someone who really understands you and knows what you want,

and then they have all my measurements and everything. I mean, I've only ordered the one thing from her, but, you know, she was good. Classy, I got a, he's got a tailor on retainer this guy. I don't know. What was the suit? Tung grand. Tengren?

Which one? The special jacket? Yeah, special jacket. I don't think it was that much. I can't remember. No, I think it was, I don't remember now. But, you know, it was a lot of money. But it wasn't that much.

Five, six, she's a nice suit on his Netflix special. Classy. Mr. Hamilton, you used tight, tilt your mic up a little bit. Oh, sure. Thank you. You've been calling on. Mr. Hamilton, too. He commands it.

He commands that respect. He does. I don't know. All right, let's go back to the beginning. Let's take it back to the beginning. Give us the origin story of Ryan Hamilton here. You're in Idaho, boy. I'm from a little town in Idaho, a little potato farming community, a thousand people in this town.

Oh. Still? Has it gotten any bigger or smaller? I just did an interview yesterday. Somebody on the radio did a bunch of research on my town and they go, guess what the population is now? And I guess 1,200, and he said it's 9.50. So it's got down. Thanks.

But I think it's, I don't know. That seems odd to me because I think there are new people coming. What'd your mom and dad do? My dad, they both studied creative things. They studied, my dad studied art education. My mom studied like creative writing. But they ended up doing different things. My dad eventually when he was young, got a career as a lineman for a little power company.

Right. Limeon for the county? Yeah, yeah. Basically. Love it. And a little power co-op in Idaho. And my mom became a teacher. Okay.

Yeah, and she taught all sorts of different. She taught sixth grade for a long time. She taught creative writing. She taught gifted and talented for the whole school district from a very rural place, you know, a little tiny town. And so brothers and sisters? Yeah, I have one brother, one sister. I'm the oldest. Very nice.

Yeah. That makes sense. Yeah? You got a George Bailey vibe to you. Oh. What are you made? Hey, he just pulled that. This guy down.

I love it. Jacket. Yeah, Jacket. Okay. What did you, was it, the house you grew up in, was it on a big plot? Like, how rural was the neighborhood or was the houses close together? Or were you like?

When I was, up until I was about 13, I lived, we lived in a little house in town, but it was on the edge of town. And so right on the edge of town, it felt like almost out of town. There was a big pasture next to us with cattle and horses. Really? We didn't own it, but, you know, that's where our house. It was at the, you know, end of the street. And we had neighbors and stuff. And then we moved out of town eventually when I was about 14.

Like rural, more rural? Yeah, well, about three miles out of town. Our nearest neighbor was maybe a mile away. Wow. You know, all surrounded by potato. It was a farmhouse that we moved into. It wasn't on a farm, but it was a farmhouse that we moved into, yeah. And wasn't your guy's farmhouse?

No, no, we never owned a farm. My mother's from this town, and her family owned like a little general store that my great-grandmother ran and my grandfather ran after that. It was called a variety store. Nice. And they sold everything, appliances, clothes. And it was open while you were a lot when you were a kid? Up until I was about 12 or something. Did you get to run around the store and stuff like that?

Oh, yeah, yeah. I used to go. I used to work there. They'd put me to work. Every Christmas they had Toyland downstairs, and that was insane for us. set it up just for Christmas. Yeah, yeah, that toy land down in the basement and, you know, we would always get the wholesale discount. So I would work all summer because I could buy, you know, great stuff from my grandfather's store. Would you do, would you work at the store in the

summer? I would work there sometimes, yeah, you know, just like taking stuff out, shelving stuff like that. I never like was like customer service. What was the first proper job you had? I always had jobs. I got a job at a little pizza place right across the street from my grandfather's store when I was about, I guess, 13, something like that. How was that pizza? It was called Husky Pizza, which was the name of our high school mascot. I don't remember the pizza being great, but... I don't have to assume it's all potatoes.

But I didn't know great pizza that either, you know? And I also, every potato harvest had jobs because we would get out of school for a couple of weeks to harvest. You'd get off school. Yeah, for we call it spud harvest. And in the first two weeks of October, we get out of school to go help harvest the potatoes. Yeah, because everybody's, you know, most of the kids were farm kids. So they needed to go work. And so if you weren't a farm kid, you go get a job because what else you're going to do?

So, you know, 13, 14, you start going to get jobs. And, yeah, we work for a couple of weeks. I would, you start on the sorting table, pulling potatoes and vines. It goes right back in there. No, dude, that was muscle memory. He was picking them, throwing up. You're not in the field. You're like by the...

I wanted to get promoted to work in the field, but you really got to be blood to drive the truck and stuff like that. You know, like I'm not, I'm the, you know, friends of the farmers kids. I'm not one of the actual farmers. But so I would start, you start on the sorting table. Eventually I got to where I ran the stinger, it's called, which was... Sick. Which, yeah, it was awesome. You regulate the flow of the potatoes off of the truck.

up onto the sorting table and then it goes into a piler and you, I never got to run the piler but that's what stacks the potatoes in the cellar. But what I really wanted to do was drive truck, you know, where the combine comes in and puts the potatoes in the truck, but I never

got to do that. What did that pay? It was by the hour. I don't remember. I mean, this was a long time ago, but... Poor potatoes. Yeah. We got paid by the potato. No, yeah. You would end up making, you know, six, eight hundred bucks for two weeks. At that time, that's not bad. It was really good money for a kid.

I actually bought my first car with my spud money is what we call. Spud money. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What year is this? What year we're doing? It sounds like 1932. No, I know it does. This was in the 90s.

So, yeah, I mean, yeah, probably around early 90s, mid-90s when I was doing that. Nice. Yeah. What were your toys as a kid? What did you like as a kid? Oh, man. I was into this series of toys called MED, mask. Did you ever hear of them?

Yeah. Did you? Huge mascot. Yeah. 50. Oh, me too. Yeah. Yeah. Mobile Armored Strike Command or something like that. Oh, it is. Yeah, it's a night. Mobile. They fought Venom. Yeah. Exactly. They had the gas station and all. I still have them all. I still have all my mask. Are you serious? Yes. They're in a box at home. Yeah. I have a lot of them.

That's a Hamilton move right there. My grandfather would order these into his store because he knew I liked them and I would mow lawns all summer so I could buy these. Wait, are they unopened? No, they're all opened. But yeah, I got him out and my nephews were playing with them. Okay. It was pretty fun. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got all those.

What did they want to toys when we were kids the best? Oh, those were awesome. G.I. Joe, Transformers, yeah. Mask. These were so cool. Because they were like cool cars all, and then they would turn into like a jet or, you know, they would turn it. They weren't transformers.

They were more like practical than transformers. And that's what we like You missed all this kid Yeah You were smoking cigarettes You're too young for this Yeah I'm too young for it

I'm 24 So you saved them Do you collect anything else Do you save anything else Because you're very meticulous As everybody knows Put together Put together

Yeah I mean I was into comic books For a while I still have all of those And I like to go back to Now I if I'll see a comic book shop I'll just wander in And actually I just Wondered into Midtown Comics the other day

And they have a mask is like having this like resurgence. Yes. I just saw their available. Yeah. Hmm. Yeah. What, do you have anything? First of all, where is this stuff?

It's in Idaho. It's in Idaho. It's in Idaho. Your parents still live there? Yeah, yeah. Where's what family? Yeah. The mask stuff? And his comic book.

Oh, okay. What do you have it displayed in his apartment? That's what I did. I thought he had it in the house here. No. See your toys closed. It's a long ways away. Sure.

It's hard to transfer for all that stuff. Do you have anything that you know is expensive in the comic books? Or like, you know. I have the first appearance of Venom. I think that one's worth a few hundred bucks or something like that. Pretty sick. Yeah. Yeah.

I don't have anything really crazy, though. Okay. But, you know. Who did the cooking growing up? Your mom? Yeah, mostly my mom. What are we talking about? We would have all sorts of things.

We would, we were. a family that liked to try stuff. It was like, I mean, not my dad, but my mom was very encouraging of like we would, you know, if we were out on traveling somewhere, we were encouraged to try new things. But at home, you know, you know, I don't know. We had a lot of mac and cheese. Things were fast. Everybody was busy. Are there any Idaho dishes? Like fricacy or something? I mean, it's like steak and potatoes. It's pretty standard. Okay. If you're just going to have an Idaho dish. What were the restaurants in town? It must have to be a small town. So there's the There was a pizza place that would open and close.

There was this place called the Frost Top on the highway, which is on the way to Yellowstone Park, and it was only open seasonally a lot of times. But it was cool. It was like an old drive-in, and my mom, when she was a teenager, worked there and actually worked there on roller skates. Like, she would serve people on roller skates, and it's still there. If you look at it. Yeah, right there. Isn't that cool?

That place still exists. That's a good-looking soft-serve. to big root beer outside. It came right up. That's so funny. Yeah, it's a big, that root beer used to turn when I was a kid. I think it stopped turning. I don't make stuff like they used to.

But that place is like an institution, and it's right across the highway from the high school. So we would sometimes walk over there and get greasy fries or whatever. Not a lot of ethnic food in the town? Chinese. Not much. My aunt had a Mexican restaurant for a little bit. few years. Yeah.

She Mexican? She married a Mexican. And she learned to make fantastic Mexican food. No kidding. Yes, yeah. And we had a place called Big Judds. It's kind of famous in our little neck of the woods. They have like a huge one-pound burger that's like one-pound.

That's how you make some bugs. After it's cooked, not before. And if you eat the whole thing, you get your picture up, you know, I've never attempted it. Really? Yeah, yeah. What were the vacations like growing up? Where would you go?

We would always try to go somewhere. There were a lot of road trips. We went to one year we, my dad was from Southern California, so we went there a lot to visit his friends and family. One year we went to, oh, this place in, I think it's in Colorado. What's it called? It's like these ancient civilizations who had their homes built into the, Machu Picchu.

No, it's in, it's in Colorado. It's like Mesa Verde. Ah, that's something, right? Yeah. What is that? Mesa Verde Cliff dwellings, yeah, this. Yeah, yeah, Mesa Verde National Park.

Yeah, it's really cool, actually. There's a lot of... Who lived there? There was, like, age, like, you know, they lived in this, this would, yeah. I don't like that at all. That place is haunted, dude. No way.

It's really interesting. I'll be in Petitlton. Very educational. Your parents were learned people. My, yeah, my, my, my grandfather took my, mom and her siblings on vacations. And that was, so that was like a tradition that stayed with us, even though we didn't have a lot, but we went to the Oregon coast sometimes.

That was good. And, you know, we do stuff close. We went to Yellowstone Park and like Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Those places were very close. And so we would go explore those places a lot. We would go camping sometimes. Really? Yeah, yeah, go camping, just, you know, close.

And those were great trips. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. How were the grades growing up? I was an average. I would get B's, B's, and occasional A and occasional C. Yeah, you know, right around there. What did you get in the SATs?

You remember? We had the A-C-Ts, and I think it was like a 24 or something like that. Expectable, yeah, Ben. Did you go to college? I did. I went to Brigham Young University. Really? Yes.

And I went there. There was a little, they have a, when I was a. And I was, now it's a four-year university, but they had a school in Idaho, a branch that was called Ricks College when I went there. Come on down to Ricks. Yeah, yeah. A branch of Brigham Young? Yes. Ricks.

And now it's called Brigham Young University, Idaho. Okay. And it's a four-year school. But it was two years when I went there. And then I transferred. You went to Ricks. Yeah, I went to Ricks place. Sounds like a tire shop.

Rick. Rick. Lex University and oil change. Yeah, yeah. I got my bachelor's in science. And I got it at Ricks. Kevin's talk about Square Square, square square

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Did you go to football games and stuff like that? Were you big into that? I wasn't huge into that. I would go. Who was a quarterback back then in the 90s? Somebody huge. I have a feeling you're asking the wrong guy. Yeah.

But it was somebody big. Well, Steve Young came from there, but that wasn't my time. I don't remember. Yeah. Yeah, I can't recall, to be honest. But it was fun, though. Speaking of that, who is, it could have been a local celebrity? Who was as a kid, the most famous person or the first,

famous person you met. Was there anybody could have been like a radio DJ? When I was like 14, I did a lot of stuff when I was 14, it turns out. But I wanted to be a humor columnist. That was like my aspiration. Yeah, I got it. There was a guy named Dave Barry. You know who Dave Barry is?

He's talking a lot of movies. Give him a goog. Yeah. And he had a humor column that would syndicate it. all over the country. He's from Miami. But, and he's a very funny guy. And I would just read that. The whole column was just purpose to be funny. And we didn't have a school newspaper. So I called the county newspaper when I was 14 and said,

can I have a column? And they said, sure. So I really had gotten on. I'm getting to the celebrity. And then the NBC affiliate said, we hear you're interested in journalism. Do you want to, like, learn how to shoot sports? We need a guy to shoot sports. And you can drive when you're 14. Idaho. Really? In the 90s?

Yeah, and now still, because of all of these farm kids. They have to be able to drive this farm equipment, so you get your driver's license when you're 14 where I grew up. That's crazy. That's got to be the only state. I don't know. I don't know. But I think now

it's just daytime, like you can't drive at night or something like that. But anyway, so I took this little gig and I learned how to shoot sports, and I met all of the newscasters that I would grow up. watching and the sports guy was like a funny guy and so i would sometimes write jokes he taught me how to edit on old reel to reel and i would do that every friday night i would go shoot a game somewhere

drive to the station and then we would edit and i would and these guys were celebrities to me yeah you know so i was around them and it was like this is cool i love the vibe of the newsroom and i just love every once in a while they would mention my name on air and i'd be like that's awesome That's amazing. Yeah, yeah. What were their names? There was, oh gosh, it's been such a long time. What was, there was Carol Honus and Jay Hildebrand were the two big anchors.

That's for Jay Hildebrand. Carol Haldabrand. Yeah, yeah. Don't forget Ryan. This was Channel 8 at that time, which was the NBC. And the sports guy was, what was his name? These guys would come and go. Carol and Jay were the only ones who stayed there.

small markets they just come and go come and go come and go those small market news anchors are huge celebrities in the town they make a lot of cash too they do all right especially back in the 90s those guys are probably clearing a lot of money yeah yeah yeah yeah a lot of cash that's the first thing I said to them you guys probably got a lot of cash on you got bar on her buck thinking about going to ricks yeah how old are you when you got your passport I think I must have been like 18 or 19 because I was a missionary for two years for the Mormon church. And I think they must require. I didn't go to a foreign place, but I think they require you to get your passport maybe.

I'm just trying to think of the first reason why. But that was probably it. Wow. Did you grow up in the Mormon church? I grew up, yeah, kind of going when I was young. And my mom's family goes way, way back into the church. So I kind of, we went when I was really young, and then I kind of started going in like high school and stuff like that.

And then I went to Brigham Young University. And then I thought, I'm going to go be a missionary. So I did that. I went to college for one year, and then I was a missionary for a couple of years. But she didn't graduate college. And then I came back and graduated. Gotcha. Yeah, yeah, which was kind of the standard thing.

That was the standard. Gotcha. Yeah, yeah. So where'd you go be a missionary? North Carolina. Okay. The western part. I was in Charlotte.

and up in the mountains and all over the place. Wow. Yeah. That's crazy. I did that for two years. I mean, sometimes I can't believe it. But yeah, yeah. So you go around trying to convert people.

Yeah, we would go around and, you know, knock on doors. But that was like the last thing we did. People think that we did that all day long. But really, we would try to get referrals. At that time, there was, you know, I don't know. It's a lead. Yeah. There was a lot of commercials that they would run.

I don't know if you remember that, but they would run. And people would. People would call and go, we want to talk to somebody. And so we would follow up on those. Yeah. And we would do a lot of like community service. It was really pretty, you know, it's, it's an intense experience. Where would you live?

They had housing that was set up in different places. So it was taken care of. I mean, we would pay like a monthly, I don't know, thing. And then everything was kind of taken care of. They had cars set up for us or, you know, we had her own bike often. but they would have apartments and we would move around to different apartments every few months. It's very, very well organized, to be honest. It's like kind of a program all over the world.

Wow. Yeah, it was one of the, like, it was pretty difficult. And I felt like I needed to do it, but I wasn't real. I don't know. It was hard, but I eventually, you know, you don't communicate with your family, you don't date, you don't watch television, you don't like listen to popular music. I have a very regimented sleep and work schedule. You're up every day.

You study for like two or three hours a day. You get you on a mission, big dog. No chicks, no TV. What are you crazy? Yeah, yeah. It was something else. You weren't allowed to talk to your parents? We would now I think they talk like you can talk once a week on phone or FaceTime.

But when I did it, the rules were different. You would write letters is all you did. And then you could call on Christmas and Mother's Day. Jesus. So for two years, I basically just wrote letters. to people. What was this? Mid-90s? This was,

yeah, I guess late 90s. Yeah. Yeah. I was getting fucked up at Widener. They're dropping out of college, you were. Oh, wow. So, yeah, I mean, yeah, now my life's a little different,

but that was what I was doing. Yeah, yeah. Now I call anybody whenever I want. Christmas and New Year, I call my mom. Okay. So when did you move to New Year? When did you move to New Year?

York? I moved, let's see, like 2008. Okay. It'll have been a while. From? From Utah. I stuck around in Utah after college. Did you stand up out there? I started out there. Yeah. What year did you start? I did it like three times when I was 18 in Idaho that I don't really count at that at Rick's College. I had a little radio show. I was studying broadcast journalism. And for the radio show, I, I was. I produced some stand. We, a few of us produced some stand-up comedy shows. That was the first time I did it. But then I didn't touch it again for like six years.

Wow. And then I started doing it, uh, right after college a little bit locally. And then, yeah, that's where I started. And then I eventually moved to New York.

I mean, I was doing it full time before I moved to New York. You were. Yeah. What was the first, you know, uh, I mean,

if you're doing it full time, you're obviously earning a living, but was the first like kind of big windfall, like big check. Big check. A few thousand dollars like, Money. And what'd you do with it?

You probably put it right away. Money? Yeah, money. Talking cave. First time I made real money. I don't, I mean, I would get these corporate events every once in a while. It must have been one of those where I went, wow. I don't really remember.

I remember the first time as I got paid, but it wasn't real money. It was like, um. Those corporates pay all right. I mean, I did, uh, the first kind of big things that I really remember. being big were like I did live at Gotham for Comedy Central before I lived in New York That's it was big. Yeah, yeah

And that was kind of the launching pad We did it on Access TV. Yeah, we did it. I already got the channel 837 I'll have you. 400 bucks and some penny and la vodka downstairs. Shut up to Mr. Mozilla. Runs a tight operation

over there. Hit me up. Yeah, I actually did it with it was also Amy Schumer's first television spot. And I was first. I'd never even been to New York in my life. Might as well be another planet to what you're using. Yeah, yeah, it was crazy.

It's crazy. He's got two potatoes in his hand. Yeah. I don't put these. I've brought gifts. Can I talk to your elders? But I got off stage and I happened to have a good set somehow and I was first. And Amy came up.

up to me and goes, hey, I'm Amy, and you're going to move here and we're going to get an apartment together. What? That was the first thing she said to me. Yeah. She was like, you're going to move here and we're going to get a place. And I remember going, like, what neighborhood? Because I didn't understand how New York worked.

And she's like, I'm not living below 14th Street. She's like, it doesn't matter. It gets real boogey. That's got to be the episode. It's got to be close to the Zengist store. Yeah. Yeah. Wow.

Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, that was the first kind of big thing that I remember. But cash-wise, I don't know. I was always scraping by and those corporates would kind of save me once in a while. Corporate money. How was Ryan Hamilton with money? I would have to assume pretty good.

You're a saver? I try to be. I mean, I try to be smart. I make mistakes here and there. I like real estate and I've made some. Wait, what? This guy screwed in. What do you mean you like real estate?

I'm just interested in it. Like, even from a young age, like, just where I grew up, we were always thinking about land and interested in land because of where we lived. And just the way the culture was, it's all around agriculture and it's beautiful. And we had some old family land and, you know, that had been in my mom's family for a long time. So it just stuck in my head. I was always interested in that. We were always kind of driving around going, who owns that? What is that?

That's up for sale. And so I'm always thinking about that. So I've made some purchases. and sometimes I win, sometimes I don't. So you own some real estate? I own a little bit. I mean, I own, yeah. In New York or outside of New York?

Both a little bit. Now, when you say purchases, do you mean like buying land or buying home? I have some land in Idaho that I own jointly with some other families. And then, you know, I own an apartment in New York. You own an apartment in New York. And you live in? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But I'm always thinking about that. And I've always, you know, and I'm trying to move into a different apartment. It's a whole situation. What were some of the bad moves that you made as far as? Well, I don't know. I bought this apartment. It's a long story. I'm actually trying to get into another apartment.

And I don't know if it was the right situation that I bought. So I'm kind of in the middle of it right now. I'm trying to, and I renovated this other apartment that I made. Did you? You're making moves, Hamlet. I'm trying to, I like, I like that way. I like it. It's a good way to invest, I feel like, because I enjoy it.

Uh-huh. And I also feel like I put a lot into it. You know what I mean? So you feel fulfilled. Yes. Yes. Yes. And I don't know if New York is a great investment in real estate anymore these days, but that's where some of my money is.

And I just wanted to have something in Idaho. It just made me feel connected. Connected. And like, I can go back there at some point. Did you go back there and build a house if you want? I could. Actually, yeah. my mom and sister are now building a house.

It's a long story, but I own some land with my mom, and I sold my half to my sister, and now they're building a house on it, and I own another piece of property jointly with my sister. Yeah, yeah. That's good stuff. They got to get you hanging out with Hamilton. None of these are huge investments, you know, but I mean.

It's land in Idaho. I didn't think it was Detajmo Hall. I got you. Yeah, that's a, I understand. I slept in a hotel life. I live in New York. In the city, he lives in. Wow. That's a real estate.

That's a one-night real estate purchase. That is. Well, staycation. Okay. Do you have a car at the moment? No, I had a car. I sold it last summer. What'd you have? I had an old Subaru outback that I bought during the pandemic. Reliable.

Yeah, I love Subaru's. I love Subaru's. And I was back in Idaho, and I needed a car because I was back in Idaho for a lot of the pandemic. And so when I came back to New York, I thought, I'm just going to keep it. Because I love going upstate once in a while to look at land and stuff. And so I just, I'll just keep it. And then it became such a burden that I was like, I got to get rid of this. So, yeah. Very good.

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I have a standard I don't even know which one it is I'm not good at the credit card game Like I have a card that I probably should upgrade And get more points for I have so many Delta points I don't know Delta guy

I'm a delta guy generally But lately I've just Ever since the points I used to be like all about it. But now, ever since it became about how much you spend rather than how much you travel, I just kind of like done with that.

So. Are you diamond? What are you? I'm not diamond currently. I was diamond for years. But I am a million miler life. Yeah. I'm creeping up on two actually.

Two million miles? What do you get for that? I think I'm at 1.7. Are you that? What is it? What is it? You board first as a million. Are you in that like in a program?

Not less, no, I mean, it doesn't mean, I think I have lifetime silver or lifetime gold is what you get. But I, you know, I'm already platinum. I'm usually platinum now. Uh-huh. So I'm platinum and I'm bored zone three or four. You bring food on the plane? Yeah, I'll bring something. Like what?

This can go either way. You're not bringing like shake shack or anything. No, not like that. I'll get like a protein bar, like a kind bar or like, um, uh, uh, You're not bringing hot food on the plane. Occasionally I'll bring something, like a roll. You know what I mean? If I'm really scrambling.

A roll? Like, well, like a rap. A rap. Okay. That's okay. You're right there. You're on the fence. What kind of wrap?

I don't even know. I don't know what we're judging here. Like, is that trash to bring food on the plane? You're creeping. Is it? Yeah. It depends what it is. Like a tuna hoagie would be, you know.

Interesting. Bad news. Yeah. You take your shoes on. on the plane? Only on really long flights. Okay. Yeah.

Put the seat back? Depends. Long flight, I might. If I'm sleeping, I might. You give him a little look back before you do? No. I'm kind of of the mind. Like, if someone puts their seat back on me, I go, that's you're right.

I'm with you. Yeah. Yeah. I go, I want to be the change I want to see in the world. I'm going to eat this. Yeah. If the person behind me is back, I'm going back, too. It doesn't bother me.

too much either way. I mean, it's two inches. It's like, you get nothing and they're doing nothing to me. You know what I mean? It's nothing. It's a sharp guy. You cooking at the house? You cook at the apartment? I cook a little bit. I'm trying to cook more. I'll do like,

what am I into lately? I don't know. I've been trying to cook. Every once in a while I'll get a recipe and I'll go, let me try to figure this out. I've got one of those air fryers. No, like a crock pot, but not a crock pot. What do you call it, the pot?

Pressure cooker. Instapot. I got an Instapot, and I'll do stews or things like that once in a while. Yeah. You'll have it for the week. Yeah. You read? Yeah.

What do you read now? Right now I'm reading a book, a nonfiction book called Breathe. It's all about breathing. Oh. These guys fucking locked in. Hold on. And that's next to the bed. You read it as you go to sleep?

Sometimes. I'd like to read fiction before I go to bed. I just recently. I wish I had an opinion like that. I like to read fiction. I'm going to start saying that. I'm taking that. I like to read fiction before you.

I don't mean my friend Ron Hamilton. We own some property jointly. We like to read fiction before we go to. I, I. You girls in Iowa? That's not my thing. If you read fiction before you go to bed, it helps you sleep because if you read nonfiction, you're computing things and it keeps you alert and you're like, if you read fiction,

your mind just kind of like, oh, the story I'm picking up and you fall asleep. I've been reading the Lord of the Rings kind of right now I've got that sitting by my bed just to go to sleep too You put a glass of water next to your bed before you go to bed

I picture that you kind of got that does that Sometimes no but not generally I do this thing now where I I've been working on my sleep and I tape

I'll tape my mouth shut I got you? Yeah yeah Do you know that? Yeah I tried it It freaks me out Oh it's a little scary but I feel like it helps me

Are you a mouth breather? I've been trying to fix that. That's what this whole book is about, actually. I mean, I was working on it before this, but yeah. I got a C-PAP. Do you? Mm-hmm. You find that helps?

Oh, yeah. Okay, good. Yeah, I was dying in the middle of the night. Yeah, that's what happens. Yeah, that's chapter one of the book, brief. Do you wear pajamas to bed? No. I pictured you as a full pajama guy.

I've never, I've thought about it. Sometimes I peruse online and go, I should buy some pajamas. But I never. Look sharp in my pajamas. With the slippers and a robe and all that stuff? Yeah, you're a sharp guy. Back to travel real quick. I forgot.

We had talked about it at the seller one night. This, your bag that you have. I think it's a backpack. You got Jerry on. Oh, yeah, yeah. It's in the, yeah, I have a year. What is the brand? Pioneer Carey.

It's awesome. It's really, it's a little brand. This guy, I actually kind of connected with the owner a little bit and we went back and forth. This guy is, he's like a great. I just love good design. And this guy really. It's very thoughtful about bags. And I looked a long time, and I had this bag,

and I was on the plane with Jerry, and he goes, and Jerry's, you know, he notices everything. He loves Jerry. Big Jerry guys. Nobody's ever noticed this bag. And I'm very, like, put a lot of thought into finding this bag. And it's just sitting there, and Jerry goes, what's this, what's, tell me about this bag.

And I go, yeah, he knows. And, ha, guys got a good eye for design. And he starts kind of looking at it. And he goes, he looks at me in the eye. And he goes, now you got me excited. Imagine you get very excited. So he kind of went down the rabbit hole of finding the right backpack. And he'd had the same backpack for like 20 years.

Because I haven't. He bought one of these? Yeah, he bought one. He bought a different one. But he was going back and forth. We were texting which model. That's the one I carry. That's a nice bag.

He has the bigger one. and uh they're not that expensive I know they're not that expensive they're not crazy but sometimes it's not about it's about the thoughtful design but this the fabric that this guy has designed

is amazing the what do you call it the ballistic nylon ballistic nylon that's for a couple operators we're out there on the road is it bulletproof it feels bulletproof this guy's designed

it's like it's like very hardy sturdy but it looks slick and professional. You can take it to work, but you could also take it on a hike or whatever. I mean, it's like a really, the material he's, is, I got to get eyes on that. Yes. That's, yeah, 840 ballistic nylon. Twist yarn ballistic nylon. Ballistic nylon. What the heck. That's good stuff. You look good on your way to happy hour or shooting bad guys.

Yeah. To do an extraction point in a rush. Jerry actually posted this on Instagram after he found the one. And he was like, he's like, let's get breakfast. and he goes, this is the one. And he posted, my new Pioneer Carry. He said something like. The guy must have been freaking out.

The guy. Yeah, yeah, they sold out. He put, thanks, my new Pioneer carry bag. Thanks for Ryan Hilton for showing me the way. And they were sold out for like a month or something. Wow. That's awesome. That's the Jerry bump. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Wow. Because I, you know, you travel, we travel so much. And the back, like, we were talking about it this weekend. It was like, you need something that is, you know, you can operate in different, you know, it can't be too big, it can't be too small. It's got to fit here. Yes. One of the things that's amazing about these bags is it stands upright.

It's designed so that it stands upright by itself, which is you don't realize you want until you have it. And you just set your bag down there and it's just sitting there kind of looking at you. You're like, it's my companion now. You know, it's everywhere I go. I've got this thing. Very nice. Sharp guy. Maticulous, sharp.

Will you brush your teeth in the shower, Ryan? No, not in the shower. Were you pee in there? You pee in a shower? No, no. Really? No. Wow.

Is that surprising? That's the mark of, yeah. No one's watching. You might be the first person ever. Really? I think in the history of the show. I mean, I think maybe I have a couple of times in my life. In your life, but it's not, you know.

Those were dark days. Yeah, dark days. Something bad's going on. You floss every day? Yes, floss every day. Yeah. What's the nighttime routine? You got to have something.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, flossing is huge. I flossed twice a day. Me too, believe it or not. Yeah. But the whole, really? I mean, flossing is, you know, they say it's got all sorts of benefits.

People who floss prevent Alzheimer's, stuff like that. No shit. Yeah. All right. Got that gone forward. Yeah, you should start flossing more. I do. It's knocking on the door.

I floss every single day, twice a day. It's the only thing that I do religiously. I don't know why. It's a hard thing to do, but once you get in the habit, it's, you know, it's, we should all be great. I have to do it. It should not be missed. I have to do it because. Because of the feel.

I have to, I have to, the way it makes my teeth feel. Wow. I cleaned out. Right. Yeah. It feels great. Yeah. You do the sticks or the actual floss?

I do the actual floss. Oh, old school. Yeah. I like it. A little glide. You just pull the string out. You got a brand that you like, obviously. I'm looking for a new brand, to be honest.

Try glide. Yeah. I am. I'm on glide right now. Glide's good. Can I recommend the ballistic nylon? It'll clean you right up. It's reuse.

His teeth are smoking I forget the question I was answering Oh my nighttime routine Yes Yes so I floss I have a You know cleansing Very pretty basic

Skin Management thing I do I try to That's about it really And under eye cream anything I used to do under eye cream I've abandoned an under eye cream

Okay. I don't know. I asked some people and they were like, it's the same stuff. But sometimes I feel like it's good. What else do I do at night? I mean, I try to just cool down, get in bed, and read. Do no phone in the bed, I presume. I wish that I did.

I mean, I go back and forth. It's so hard, I break the habit on the road because it's just sitting right next to you. One thing I do at home as I have these red lights that I turn on at night. Nice. And that really. helps me. It puts me in a good state. Oh, and here's another thing that I like to do, and I'll do this on the road. I eat a kiwi or two before I go to sleep. What's that doing? A kiwi fruit. I read somewhere that it has something that helps you go to sleep, and I feel like it does, and it also saves me, because

you know that right before bed, I get this real hunger thing where I'm like, I just want to eat something terrible right before bed. And the kiwi thing isn't that bad, and it kind of satisized my sweet tooth and it kind of knocks me out. And there's a lot of great stuff in cute. I just I just wash it, chop it up, skin and all on the road. I'll just buy them get them on the road. Do you bring them? I go right to the grocery store when I go on the grocery store.

Often if I'm there a couple days, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And I'll pick up some Kiwis, a few things. I just like having some stuff at the hotel. It makes me feel like I'm not desperate to eat garbage. I get that. And some water. Do you run a car when you land in a city?

Sometimes. it depends. I like having a car. Yeah. Yeah. This is a really fun show. I don't know if I'm answering entertaining questions, but I'm having a ball. Of course. Yeah. How often do you wash your hair? Like every three or four days.

Very nice. Yeah, yeah. Who cuts the hair? I have a lady in Midtown. Yeah. Wolf and Blade. Katie, shout out to Katie. Wolf and Blade. She's kind of, I've been a with her for a while and she kind of started her own little thing and um yeah you got a lot of people for stuff you got to find people you know like to stick with them well i find that if they know your history they can help you better i like it smart that's some shit luke would do yeah yeah um are you a coffee guy or no no i don't i i drank coffee for the first time in my life like on the

road with Seinfeld like a year ago or something statistic i mean it's Mormons aren't yeah i never grew up drinking coffee. No, no kidding. Yeah. I now will, I'm into matcha now. I'll drink matcha. I like, caffeine really makes me jittery,

but matcha gives me a little energy and evens me out. Gotcha. Yeah. A little smoother. What's the haircut cost you? I'll set you back. Okay.

It's also expensive. I mean, That's why I ask. Oh, we know. Wolf and Blade. It's got five stars. I never seen a place. A full five stars.

I think it's, I think she's got me on a rate that, because I've been with her for a while, so I think it's more than this now. But I think it's like 125. Okay. What do you tip on that? You jump on it. I don't know. I usually do whatever the full, like 25%. Okay.

Yeah. That's a good. That's a good tip on $125 bill. She's great. She fits me in when I need to. Like, she just did, I just did the Tonight Show and she's right across the street from 30 Rock. She fixed me all up, no charge. You know, she's like, that's what happens when you have a person.

You got guys and girls. So that's where you went to do your hair and makeup. You went there. Well, it was right across the street. My hair always stresses me out for TV. And I just thought, I'll just go. And she offered it. She says, I'm right across the street.

Sometimes I do this for people who've got stuff going on at 30 Rock. Just come by. I'll fit you in for 15 minutes, clean you up. Not a full cut, just a little cleanup. I got to start hanging with him. That's what I'm saying, man. Dude, this guy's going. This guy's hitting a custom hair cup of 430 rock right across the street.

Walking in a $5,600 suit or something like that. You got a wrinkle green t-shirt. My team stinks. That's it. I'm hanging with Hamilton. You're out. It's me, new guy, Luke, and Hamilton. Man.

You bite your nails or you trim your nails? Never bite them. I never, no, that's not a thing for me. I trim them. I just noticed a nice little Rolex on your hand right there. Yeah. What's that? What's the story behind that? I just recently

You know, I looked at watches for a long time. I was interested in it's a thing that I like to think about. I like to find a thing and if it's something I'm interested in, I will find the one. You know what I mean? I like that. I like buying things for life. If you can find the thing that you want. You're not an impulse guy.

No, I like if I think about something. I'm all impulse, baby. All impulse. All the time. Purchases? You just buy it. Everything. Everything.

I get a little impulsive, but I have tried to implement this rule. If there's something I really want, I'll go, I'm going to wait 48 hours, 24 hours, and see how I feel. And if you do that, it changes how you feel about things. So, you know, I have some buddies who are into watches, and it's just a thing where I have a very small wrist so I could never wear a great watch. So I was always on the hunt. Like, what's the watch for me? and this is like one of the cheaper high-end watches that you can buy really but it's it's so perfect and it's just praised as like it's nothing but a watch and it does it perfectly well this is the

explorer this is the new model and um it's a perfect size for me it does nothing but tell time and it's just um it's it's not a watch that a watch guy's gonna go it's not gonna blow anybody's But for me It's reliable It's totally reliable It's totally reliable It for me It's just perfect

The right amount of flash To everything And it doesn't It's not super People aren't really noticing it If they notice it If they notice it What do you got a Rolex

Somebody? You might notice it But if you do You go It's a normal It's not flashy Middle of the road Good watch

Not middle of road But wear this With a suit To dinner You can wear this It's a sports Watch You can wear it

Back to the suits we talked about at the beginning. How many suits do you think you own? I own a lot of suits that I don't wear anymore because my body's changed or I grew out of it. But, you know, I have probably, I have a black suit that is in regular rotation. I have, you know, the special jacket now, it's like once you wear it on the special, it's hard to wear it again performing because people, I think in their head they're like, this is how I know, like wear something fresh. I have a

I have like a For the same t-shirt this weekend Four shows I have a linen suit that I just wore on the Tonight Show that I really like That I've been like For summer I think is great

And then I have a cup Like I've got like a Navy suit And I do have like a gray suit Those are kind of Those are my four like suits That I just kind of keep around But really the black one gets a lot of wear

and then my jackets I have a couple jackets to get a lot of wear you, I mean, I don't know if I've told you this. He has the story where him and Goldman took List out to buy a suit for whatever List was doing.

Oh yeah, well we bought shoes. He bought this. Maybe Gary took him to the suit. I was only involved in shoes. I'm not sure. And he got whatever one. I'm making this,

it was like a thousand dollar suit and Liz was going to wear like $89 like Payla shoes. And he stepped in and goes, you can't wear them shoes. You got to go. You got to spend $2.50 on shoes. But then he bought him the shoes.

Aw. Yeah. Yeah. We went to Alan Edmonds, bought him some real nice. Alan Edmonds. I don't even know what that is. He's got great names. Dude, that could be a financial advisor or a shoe plate.

Go down to Alan Edmonds. He'll take care of you. Or a local Idaho newscaster. This is Alan Edmund. We found some shoes. I think shoes are important. I made a mistake. I think in my last special, I wore brand new sneakers that I'd never wore

before and I walk weird. I didn't feel they didn't have laces. I couldn't get them tight. They weren't. And I was kind of my ankle was slipping out and it's you're thinking of mind. Yeah, of course. Shoes are important. And that leather sole on the stage,

on a wooden stage, there's something about that feel. You know what I mean? You nail that leather soul to the stage and you are secure and I love the sound of it. You know. Yeah.

Sharp. Your place is spotless, I would assume, your apartment. It goes back and forth. My life's been chaos the last month. It's really kind of crazy right now. It's not great. What's chaos for Ryan Hamilton? I mean, there's...

Buttoned up for you. There's dishes in the sink right now. There's books laying around. The bathroom needs clean. There's piles of laundry that need done. I mean, my life's been chaos for a couple of months. It's a real man. I'll move in.

I'll take care of that stuff. You got an in unit washer dryer? No, I have a laundry room in the building. How do you feel about that? You're okay with that? I like it. It's honestly pretty good because you don't have to service the things. They're really nice.

And I can do like four loads all at once. What neighbor? What area are you in? Upper West Side. You did? I just, yeah, of course. Well, you're not living downtown. Yeah, you're a Seinfeld.

You're up there with Jerry. I actually live across the street. coincidentally. I never do that getting to know him, but I live across the street. Yeah. Very nice. Classy. We always say that at the Upper West Side. Seinfeld's turf. Oh, do you? In Sanfels territory.

Start knocking on doors. I mean, this guy, it's not even up for debate. This guy's all class. You know what I mean? 100% to the prolet. But I don't know. I mean... What... Listen, compared to the animals that have been drugged through here. You said you might as well run for president. You said your places have You have dishes in the sink.

There's a dead squirrel and Kevin's sink. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. I've always felt like I have my feet in two different worlds. You know what I mean? I come from a very rural kind of, you know, not a lot of money. And I live in New York City and I, you know. We found the money doesn't really matter.

It's like it's, it doesn't matter. Whether you're trashy or not. Yeah, you could have a lot of money and still be. trashy you can It's like it takes You know it's it's really where you come from and what's instilled in you and stuff like that What's the last time you bought a lottery ticket a scratch off lottery ticket? Yeah

I win the I started buying lottery tickets if like I don't know when it gets up to really crazy just for fun I'll go by like a billion yeah I mean I probably bought 15 lottery tickets my whole life do you gamble no it doesn't do much for me drink No No, no, I mean, I drank a few times. I drank for the first time when I was 45 years old. Wow.

And why at 45? I don't know. I was just on vacation with a friend in Hawaii. And we were like, I don't know, we were just kind of bored. And I get it. It was like, let's try this. And I was at a point in my life where I thought it was after my accident, which we haven't really even talked about.

But I had an accident. And it was kind of significant to me in my life. And it shifted my mindset a lot of things where it's like, you only live one time like, I'm just going to try things now. Did you get banged up? Did you get drunk or just have like a couple of drinks? I got really the drunkest I've ever been. You'd only been down.

It was a first. Yeah, yeah. I took a long time though, I think. They get you there. Yeah. And then I was pretty drunk. And then I would did it kind of as an experiment. I'm like, I want to see.

Because everybody goes, I want to see you. drunk. Like, you know, everybody who knows me well, like, they're just like, for whatever reason, if you never drank your whole life, people want to know what you're like as when you're drunk. That's got to be fun at a party. And so, yeah, so I was trying to maintain in my head like, what am I like? Because this is a question I always get. And I think that I just got overly helpful. Like, I was like, what are your problems? No, we can solve these right now. Like, we can figure out a solution to this stuff. That's good. Even drunk, even blackout drunker, classy.

He's sitting at a resort in Hawaii doing people's taxes. Let me help you. Yeah, that's great. So, but I didn't, I just don't really enjoy it. And it's not, I just kind of stop. It was interesting, but I don't get much out of it. Where'd you stay in Hawaii? I'm sorry.

I just stayed at, it was a Marriott Beach Resort. It was like a lot. I've been to Hawaii a bunch of times for work. And, yeah, it was on Oahuahua? Yes. Were you at Coelina, the Marriott Coelina? I've been there, but that was not, that was for work.

This was just placed by the airport that was, yeah. Wait, what? I get confused on my Hawaii trips now. No, this was actually on, this was on Kauai. I'm sorry. Yeah. What was the last vacation you took?

I think it was cool. I hardly ever go on vacation. I go home to Idaho. a lot. I went home for the 4th of July. Just to hang out with my family. But to go on vacation, vacation, I rarely do that. When you go home, do you stay at the house with your family or do you get a hotel? I stay

at the house. I mean, there's not much hotel happening. And yeah, last time, it was pretty crammed right now. We're all kind of in a rental house that was never meant for us to live in as a family. So my mom's got a little apartment. My sister's family's in the rest of the house. I actually slept in my nephew's bunk bed.

Nice. There you go. There you go. 50-year-old in a bunk bed, baby. Oh, yeah. Mattress on the floor. You can't get that idol out of you, man. That's in there.

We're in a suit. Yeah. I was on Netflix. You're yelling down at him. Sometimes I'll sleep in the camp trailer in the driveway. Uh-uh. Yeah. In the summer.

It's too cold in the winter, but I like it. Trailer in the driver. I can see that. Yeah, I mean. Yeah. He knows Jerry. I'll tell Jerry that. He'll hold me.

He'll sell your house out for Monday. Ladies and gentlemen, the special is this just hit me on Netflix. Ryan Hamilton, one of the absolute funniest guys working. Buddy, we can't thank you enough for coming in. 100% all class. Oh, you guys are very nice. Wow, that's very nice. Anything yet coming up?

You want the folks to know? Plug away. Just the special, really, is the main thing. This just hit me. It's out now. If you haven't seen anything from me, I have two specials on Netflix. Happy Face is the other one. We got dates coming up.

I'm announcing a theater tour later this week. We'll have San Francisco. We got Denver, some of the big ones. You know, lots of stuff. Irvine, California, Des Moines coming up, Omaha. Yeah. This just hit me on Netflix. Stone Cold Killer.

Stone Cold Killer. Do yourself a favor. Check it out. Kippee, what do you got for him? Guys, we are off the road right now. We just finished in Denver. A new tour coming soon. We love you.

Thanks for the support. Ryan, we love you, buddy. Thanks for sit with us. Thanks for having me. Gang, we love you. We'll see you next week. Hey!